MICHAEL LAUDRUP insists he wants to stay at Swansea City but says he is in no rush to sign a new long-term contract.

MICHAEL LAUDRUP insists he wants to stay at Swansea City but says he is in no rush to sign a new long-term contract.

Swansea chairman Huw Jenkins is keen to open talks with Laudrup about extending his current two-year deal, which is due to run out at the end of next season.

Jenkins wants to tie Laudrup down at least until the summer of 2015 to fend off the likes of Spanish giants Real Madrid, who have been linked with a move for their former midfielder if Jose Mourinho leaves next summer.

The Swansea chairman said: “If we can get through next season and then get another year out of Michael as well, so that he has spent three years with us at the very least and the club has moved forward, I think personally that would suit both parties.”

But Laudrup has cooled talk of staying at the Liberty Stadium beyond next summer despite his chairman’s comments.

“When people want you to stay it’s because they are pleased with what you are doing so that’s very positive but for me it’s more important to think about the present, not the future,” said Laudrup

“I have a contract until next season so nothing is urgent, the present is the most important thing.

“I have one more year on my contract and my intention is to stay here.

“Always when I say that people ask ‘but can you guarantee you will be here?’, but no-one can guarantee 100% that they will be working in the same place.

“There are things in life that we do not know what will happen.

“But you can have an intention and my intention is to stay here because I think we have a very interesting team and maybe next year will be even more interesting.”

Laudrup’s managerial career has been made up of relatively brief spells at Getafe, Spartak Moscow and Mallorca since spending four years in charge of Brondby in his native Denmark

He left Getafe after 10 months despite taking them to a Copa del Rey final and the Uefa Cup quarter-final, spent seven months in Russia before leaving after falling out with the owners and departed from Mallorca 14 months into his reign when his best players were sold without his knowledge by the financially-stricken club.

Ever since his arrival at the Liberty in June last year the 48-year-old has always said he does not expect to stay at Swansea for any great length of time and he yesterday refused to be drawn on his future in South Wales.

Laudrup said: “I can only say that one of the things I have learned in all these years in football is that it is very difficult to make a plan for the future.

“We are already talking about the summer of 2014 but that’s very far ahead.

“I don’t know what I will do in two years, four years or six years. I do not know about my future.

“I have no idea. I do not have a plan for where I am going to be in two years’ time.”

The former Barcelona, Real Madrid and Juventus legend retired from playing at the age of 34 after he had won the Dutch national title with Ajax and played at the 1998 World Cup in France with Denmark.

At the time many felt he could have continued playing but, as looks like it could be the case with his managerial career, he insists it is better to finish on a high.

He added: “The only thing I wanted as a player was to leave the day before rather than the day after, and that’s what happened.

“What I mean by that is I stopped after the World Cup in ‘98 and people asked me why I stopped and why I didn’t go on for two more years.

“I said ‘thank you, that’s exactly why I have stopped now’.

“It’s different as a manager, some can go on until 75 but that won’t be me.”

Swansea and Laudrup have been buoyed by signings of Wayne Routledge, Leon Britton, Garry Monk and Gerhard Tremmel on new contracts over the last week.

Routledge agreed a new four-year deal with the Swans while long-serving midfielder Britton has signed a new three-and-a-half year contract to take him up to 2016.

Club captain Monk has signed a one-year extension and German goalkeeper Tremmel became the latest to agree terms on a two-and-a-half year deal this week.

“It’s good to get the players signed up, they are important to us,” said Laudrup ahead of the Swans’ Premier League clash with bottom of the table QPR.

“We need to do it quick sometimes because difficult to compare and compete with the salaries of other clubs.

“We know other clubs pay more money but players sign because they want to stay here, which is good for us.”

With the Capital One Cup final against League Two side Bradford less than three weeks away, Laudrup admitted he wants his side to secure a confidence-boosting win over league strugglers QPR on Saturday.

He added: “It’s a home game after two away games and after that it’s Liverpool away and then the cup final.

“So it’s very important, not because they are bottom of the table, it’s a game I would like to win to keep that momentum going at home.

“We played very well in our last home game against Stoke and we want to do the same.

“We need to be prepared to go into the cup final with that positive mind.”